Work Environment

Degrees in Occupational & Environmental Hygiene

Learn to prevent illness and injury in the workplace. Recognizing, evaluating, controlling and preventing chemical, physical, biological and psychosocial hazards in the work environment are the focus of this field of study. With your master’s or doctoral degree in OEH, you’ll have the tools to not only keep people healthy, but also productive at work. You’ll learn to diagnose exposure problems, develop sampling strategies, and collect and measure samples to diagnose environmental risk factors that threaten worker health and safety. You’ll also study how to design and implement more sustainable production systems.

Wor Environment’s Master of Science in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene is accredited by the Applied Science Accreditation Commission and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). This program can be completed in two years of full time study (36 credits).

Toxic use reduction or integration of sustainable production and occupational hygiene

Exposure hazards and controls in construction

Prerequisites:

One semester of undergraduate math, biology, physics, and chemistry with a grade of C or better are required.

Students who graduate from this program are expected to be proficient in the following areas. These student outcomes represent key competencies for the masters level practitioner in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene.

Technical Competence

Demonstrate ability to conduct a job-hazard analysis and prepare a well formulated written report